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Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street

37 pointsby evakhouryyesterday at 8:39 PM11 commentsview on HN

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pierrectoday at 6:58 PM

Interesting, I've planned similar shots before and used different tools that serve a similar purpose. The Photographer’s Ephemeris has nice visualizations: https://photoephemeris.com/

NASA's Horizons ephemeris is also pretty good at preparing data for this. I've used it with a little script to check when the sun/moon will be in a given box. This hengefinder looks neat and really streamlined for its purpose though.

lefratoday at 6:02 PM

It would be nice to be able to access the website on a smartphone (even if the experience is suboptimal), instead of denying access.

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thisisauseridtoday at 6:51 PM

Manhattanhenge is cool but people standing in the middle of street for it is pretty nuts.

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4ndrewltoday at 6:03 PM

Stonehenge of course, famously not a henge.

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donalhunttoday at 5:54 PM

Mobile app not available in your country. :(

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fuzzfactortoday at 6:28 PM

It would be good to also have the option for alignment with sunrises in addition to sunsets.

For instance in Houston the sunrise aligns with Texas Avenue around the June solstice.

Consequently, there are no sunset alignments for the downtown skyscrapers.